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diff --git a/src/common/util-common.c b/src/common/util-common.c
index c5097ddf..e6f95194 100644
--- a/src/common/util-common.c
+++ b/src/common/util-common.c
@@ -73,6 +73,31 @@ char *mdirname(const char *path)
return strdup(".");
}
+/** lstat wrapper that treats /path/dirsymlink/ the same as /path/dirsymlink.
+ * Linux lstat follows POSIX semantics and still performs a dereference on
+ * the first, and for uses of lstat in libalpm this is not what we want.
+ * @param path path to file to lstat
+ * @param buf structure to fill with stat information
+ * @return the return code from lstat
+ */
+int llstat(const char *path, struct stat *buf)
+{
+ int ret;
+ size_t len = strlen(path);
+
+ /* strip the trailing slash if one exists */
+ if(len != 0 && path[len - 1] == '/') {
+ char *newpath = strdup(path);
+ newpath[len - 1] = '\0';
+ ret = lstat(newpath, buf);
+ free(newpath);
+ } else {
+ ret = lstat(path, buf);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
#ifndef HAVE_STRNDUP
/* A quick and dirty implementation derived from glibc */
/** Determines the length of a fixed-size string.